Shipping-package for matches



0: O. BARBER. Shipping-Package for Matches.

No. 225,041. Patented Mar. 2, 1880.

' ATTORNEYS.

N-PETRS. FHOTO-UTNDGMPHE'R, WASHINGTOMDJL UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OHIO O. BARBER, OF AKRON, OHIO.

SHIPPING-PACKAGE FOR MATCHES.

SPECIFIClATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,041, dated March 2, 1880. Application filed August 13, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, OHIO O. BARBER, of Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shi 'iping-Packages for Matches; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in shipping and display packages for matches, and is designed as an improvement upon the device patented by me July 22, 1879.

The drawing represents a vertical cross-sectional View of the invention.

A is a sheet-metal box of sufficient strength to sustain itself against danger of buckling by vertical pressure from without.

B is a false bottom of wood. This false bottom is caused to rest within the recessed bottom of the sheet-metal box and against the metal bottom. It is secured in place by fastening devices B, which pass through the side of the box, and also through the depending flange A of the metallic bottom, in their engagement with said wooden false bottom.

D represents separate smaller boxes of matches.

What I claim is The combination, with the metallic box A, formed with a recessed bottom, of the wooden false bottom B, seated within the latter, and fastening devices B, which pass through the side of the box, and also through the depending flange A of the metallic bottom, in engagement with said false bottom, substantially as Set forth.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

'OHIO O. BARBER. Witnesses:

JNo. ORoWELL, J r., WELLS W. LEGGETT. 

